To: operation clinton cleanup; null and void
Emperor Constantine......early 300's AD.....he was codifiying something that was already well practiced. Maybe for a couple of hundred years. I don't think anything was particularly wrong with taking over Saturnalia and replacing it with something better.....
A good choice by any reckoning.
1,639 posted on
11/06/2005 4:52:36 PM PST by
Lakeshark
(Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
To: Lakeshark
A good choice by any reckoning. December would be a pretty crappy month without it.. plus its a lot better than a shifting celebration like Ramadan.
To: Lakeshark
Yes. It's just long enough after winter solstice that one can tell the sun isn't going to keep retreating to the south.
It's a celebration of the [re]birth of the sun and the birth of the Son.
1,645 posted on
11/06/2005 5:17:14 PM PST by
null and void
(It's kinda fun doing the impossible - Walt Disney)
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